The Mediterranean region and the Levant have returned some of the clearest evidence of a climatically dry period occurring around 4200 years ago. However, some regional evidence …
California's 5-year drought has ended, even as its aftermath lingers. From 2012–2016 much or all of California was under severe drought conditions, with greatly diminished …
Social and political tensions keep on fueling armed conflicts around the world. Although each conflict is the result of an individual context-specific mixture of interconnected factors …
This discussion paper, by a Working Group of INTIMATE (Integration of ice‐core, marine and terrestrial records) and the Subcommision on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS) of the …
AB Knapp, SW Manning - American Journal of Archaeology, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
Abstract Explanations for the Late Bronze Age crisis and collapse in the eastern Mediterranean are legion: migrations, predations by external forces, political struggles within …
The first book to comprehensively assess anthropology's engagement with climate change, this pioneering volume both maps out exciting trajectories for research and issues a call to …
Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) precipitation during the twentieth century is characterized by a biennial oscillation, such that ISM precipitation varied between singularly strong and weak …
The eastern Mediterranean region witnessed changes in human culture of the highest importance between~ 9000 and~ 2500 cal. BP (7000—500 BC) and over the same time …
R Beddoe, R Costanza, J Farley… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
A high and sustainable quality of life is a central goal for humanity. Our current socio- ecological regime and its set of interconnected worldviews, institutions, and technologies all …